And then.

The Hi there. My name is Allison and I'm here with my co-host Brett and you are listening to or potentially watching The Red Menace.

This is a new podcast and YouTube project that Brett and I are working on where our goal is to take a work of

theory and to break it down, explore its main themes, discuss it, and then apply it to today.

And our hope isn't to just do theory for theory's sake,

but we're trying to focus on the way that theory informs our actual organizing

and the mass work that we're involved in and show how these classic theoretical texts still weigh on us today and can inform our strategies in really useful and productive manners.

So to that end, our show is broken down into three sections.

In the first section we're going to go through the text that we've chosen

and we're going to try to focus on the main themes, pull out a couple of quotations,

and really break down what it's saying.

In the second section, we're going to propose some

discussion questions for each other, going to have a little bit of back and

forth and maybe into some of our thoughts, concerns and questions with the

text. And then finally in section three we're going to focus on applying

that text to the organizing work that we as communists are doing today and to focus on how it is actually useful for helping us work towards revolution.

That's right, and if you enjoy what we do and you want to keep up with us you can follow us on Twitter at the

underscore red underscore menace or on patreon at patreon dot com forward slash the specter haunts let us know what sort of bonus content you want to see

from us on our patreon because although Allison and I have structured this show we're still

sort of wondering about what sort of Patreon content we could give to draw

in supporters and keep them happy. So if you get in on the ground floor right now you can

sort of guide what sort of content we will be putting out on Patreon going forward.

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